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Sir, - Having searched high up and low down, I cannot but agree with Eoghan Harris (October 12th) that there is no evidence that James Connolly was kicked while lying wounded on a stretcher. As he says: "This did not happen; neither was a crowd in Croke Park machine gunned."

However, in fairness to Neil Jordan, I think it is a bit much for Mr Harris to refer to these two incidents as "fictional atrocities". James Connolly had his leg shattered by a bullet during Easter Week. In great pain, he was taken to hospital in Dublin Castle after the surrender on April 29th. On May 12th he was conveyed by ambulance to Kilmainham Jail and was carried to the jail yard, where he was put in a chair and shot by a firing squad.